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22:40 30.06.2026 •
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
Photo: MFA
We have noticed information published on the official websites of the structural divisions of the North Atlantic Alliance, including its representative office in Ukraine, as regards the launch of tenders for the development of advanced weapon systems based on the record of the Kiev regime’s military operations against our country. The commentary thereto unambiguously indicates that the R&D in question is intended primarily for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) with an eye to an early employment of its results in order to accomplish the specific and highly ambitious combat goals that Kiev, with NATO’s active support, is unsuccessfully trying to attain in the course of the ongoing conflict with Russia. This project is promoted by NATO’s Allied Command Transformation with the participation of the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis Training and Education Centre that openly positions itself as an element of the NATO command structure.
In particular, this project focuses on the development of weapons for massed strikes at and long-term disablement of Russian airfields and air bases, including those located deep inside Russia. Their strategic aim is to ensure “persistent denial of enemy airfield operations” in order to achieve that “the adversary’s air campaign is fundamentally disrupted at source.”
Some of the requirements to be met by potential Western or Ukrainian developers include, inter alia, full autonomy of the weapon platforms and their sustained viability in the face of enemy efforts to block navigation signals, as well as integration of AI elements, including for targeting assignments. Furthermore, it is acceptable for the systems “to operate without continuous human control,” and their range is actually unrestricted.
These facts generally fit in with a well-known picture. The consistent integration of NATO command divisions and the relevant structures of the Kiev regime is gathering momentum, specifically in what it concerns the joint search for, development and introduction of combat solutions for use against Russia, with a concurrent integration of Ukraine and NATO’s military industrial sectors. In fact, the NATO countries are Kiev’s strategic rear.
We also note that the North Atlantic Alliance is gradually losing the remnants of rationality and drifting towards a zone of increased risk as it seeks to squeeze as much as possible from Ukraine in its magnanimously delegated, if unenviable, role as a testing ground for existing and yet to be developed military technologies and weapon systems. The destructive consequences of these crush tests for that post-Soviet country are openly disregarded by the NATO strategists, who also clearly underestimate the danger of further escalation of the Ukraine crisis, including its “horizontal” expansion.
For its part, the Kiev regime is ramping up attempts to realise its long-cherished wish to engineer a direct armed conflict between NATO and Russia in the false hope to improve its desperate battlefield situation, something that obviously falls into the category of irrational fantasies.
The bottom line is that the Ukraine-NATO tandem’s recklessly aggressive actions give the Russian military additional grounds for demonstrating greater attention to any plants involved in R&D for weapons used against Russia. It is from this standpoint that we will assess both the current situation and prospects for its further escalation.
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